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Queen will embark on a summer tour with Adam Lambert as its frontman. The iconic band announced Thursday on Good Morning America that the 19-date U.S. tour kicks off June 19 in Chicago. It wraps up July 20 in Washington, D.C. Lambert first performed with Queen in 2009 when he was a contestant on American Idol, where he placed second. The band and Lambert have since performed together, including last year’s iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas. They sang such hits as “We Are the Champions” and “We Will Rock You.” Queen frontman Freddie Mercury died in 1991. Tickets for the tour go on sale today.

Police video of Justin Bieber giving a urine sample for a drug test after his arrest on charges including driving under the influence was released Thursday by prosecutors, with sensitive portions blacked out as ordered by a judge. The clips show the 20-year-old singer standing behind a low partition to provide the sample. A black box is imposed over his lower half to conceal any glimpse of his genitalia. The clips show Bieber being handed a cup by a police officer and later handing it back. The video is part of nine disks of Miami Beach Police Department video sought under public-records laws by The Associated Press and other news organizations. Miami-Dade County Judge William Altfield agreed earlier this week with Bieber’s attorneys that some segments should be redacted to protect his privacy. Altfield said that even in jail, Bieber’s “expectation of privacy should stay with him.” The drug test is key to Bieber’s driving-under-the-influence case because it found evidence of marijuana and the anti-anxiety drug Xanax in the singer’s system. Bieber also was charged Jan. 23 with resisting arrest and having an expired license. He has pleaded innocent, and another status hearing is set for next week. A breath test detected some evidence of alcohol after Bieber’s arrest, but it was below the 0.02 threshold in Florida for underage drivers. Bieber and R&B singer Khalil Amir Sharieff - driving a Lamborghini and a Ferrari, respectively - were pulled over for what police called an illegal street drag race, although they were not charged with drag racing.

Front Section, Pages 2 on 03/07/2014

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